Monday, December 21, 2009

Ultriva Expands Internal Kanban Module with Operation Sequencing and OEE

The adding of OEE (overall accessories effectiveness) plays a big role in chargeless the ability of the bulb operations. It reflects how able-bodied the investments in apparatus and humans assets are accepting utilized. It measures the abundance and above of output. It gives one amount that can be abstinent and compared at alone apparatus level.

In the accomplished businesses operated added on anatomic responsibilities – Plant Manager amenable for bulb operations, Material Managers amenable for inventory, purchasing amenable for accepting the best prices from suppliers and DC (distribution center) managers amenable for captivation account for sales. This formed able-bodied if companies were bearing to banal and application business to drive sales for what they produced.

In today’s ambiance of anytime alteration appeal patterns, circuitous accumulation chains, broadcast assembly capabilities and all-around marketplace, it is not optimal to appearance these metrics alone and in altered systems. By abacus an OEE calculation, Ultriva now provides all the key connected advance factors in real-time from individual abstracts source.

Ultriva is auspiciously deploying OEE at a arch customer, Trane, above all 5 plants. Trane has been application Ultriva’s centralized Kanban at over fifty plan centers above these plants. Now they intend to use this bore at alone apparatus akin by sequencing the operations and facilitating OEE calculations at apparatus level.

According to Narayan Laksham, CEO of Ultriva, “Ultriva continues to add modules that drive angular methodologies above accomplishment companies. By enabling accomplishment beef to optimally arrangement productions based on absolute demands, Ultriva is now accouterment able metrics for connected advance through Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) module. Over the years Ultriva optimized the actual breeze application Electronic Kanban for just-in-time bushing and now carrying solutions to drift the branch attic to appeal apprenticed accomplishment model.”

About Ultriva
Ultriva Inc. designs angular accomplishment software and solutions that drive angular processes above the accumulation chain, from suppliers to customers. Ultriva's flagship product, Ultriva Electronic Kanban, eliminates stock-outs while abbreviation account levels up to 75 percent. Ultriva Lean Scheduling complements demand-driven bushing strategies by optimizing assembly schedules in absolute time about the a lot of capricious chump demand. Ultriva Supplier Replenishment extends the bushing capabilities of Kanban to cover schedule-based replenishment, detached POs, min/max, assignment and VMI (vendor-managed inventory) bushing methods. Ultriva's articles are in use in added than 100 plants worldwide, accumulation added than 4,000 suppliers, transacting over one billion dollars of account and abbreviation accomplishment costs for industry leaders such as AGCO, Emerson, Ingersoll-Rand, McKesson, Rexnord, and Timken.

Ultriva
www.ultriva.com
Cindy McGowan
pr@ultriva.com
408.248.9803

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